Take the lead

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The work Take the lead represents a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Four County Library System. This resource is a combination of several types including: Work, Moving Image, Visual Materials.

Ballroom dance instructor Pierre Dulaine is hired by an inner city high school principal to supervise detention for the school's most troubled students. The kids, full of anger and attitude, want nothing to do with Pierre and his classical moves. But when he takes a genuine interest in their hip-hop dancing -- and the kids themselves -- a new style of dancing is born that takes the students all the way to a national competition, and to finally believing in themselves